Chapter 50 Financial Management
After Leon saw off the two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, his personal lawyer, Jimmy McGill, called him.
"Hey, Jimmy, what's the matter?"
"Hello, Mr. Leon." Jimmy on the other end of the line sounded enthusiastic and lively, "This hurricane is really bad, my phone line has just been fixed." ”
"Something to put it bluntly, I'm a little busy right now." Glancing noncommittally, Leon clipped his phone between his shoulders, now standing at a free food stall erected by a nonprofit organization to distribute canned instant food and mineral water to victims of the disaster.
"Okay," Jimmy coughed, "do you remember that Williams manor?" Just now the real estate broker of the agency called me and said that the restoration work of the estate has encountered a little obstacle...."
"Because of the hurricane?" Li Ang opened the food box, took out all the canned instant food inside, pressed it on the table, and handed it to the victims who had been queuing for a long time with a smile, "Okay, tell me a time, how long will it take for the construction team to complete the repair work?" ”
"When the effects of this hurricane are completely over, it will be at least three months or so." Jimmy said quickly: "You know, the bridge across the sea in Gotham is blocked, plus the restoration project is very huge, the stone structure of the manor needs to be repaired, the rubble pile needs to be removed, the lawn needs to be relaid, and the rotten wooden planks inside need to be replaced, and the pawned furniture needs to go to the antique store to buy some replacements, three months is a very short deadline....."
Li Ang interrupted the other party, lowered his voice and said succinctly: "If I take out another 500,000 meters alone, can the restoration project be brought forward a little earlier?" ”
Jimmy choked for a moment, paused for a moment before pretending to be relaxed: "Wow, boss, you're really arrogant, but I don't think it will take so much money to get the construction team to start working at full speed, I think I should be able to cut some more." ”
"Then it's up to you to dredge it up," Leon said directly, "Listen, Jimmy, the reason I'm giving you $3,500 a week is because I want to have fewer things that I need to deal with personally, can you do it well?" ”
Jimmy's breath froze, he clenched the phone tightly, and said in a deep voice, "I promise to live up to your expectations, Mr. Leon." ”
"That's the best," Li Ang said hello to his companion who was engaged in public service next to him, and walked into a dark corner before saying to Jimmy: "By the way, Jimmy, I just have a lot of spare money on hand, to be precise, a big sum of money that is not very clean, you have a wide range of contacts, can you introduce me to a reliable financial advisor?" ”
"Big money...."Jimmy's breath was a little shorter, and he seemed to see the green Franklin bills flying in the sky, "You mean the IFA?" ”
The so-called IFA stands for Independent-Financial-Advisor, which refers to those financial advisors who are independent of wealth management companies and specialize in serving public investors or high-net-worth investors.
Of course, Leon needs to "clean" the money he has stolen from the Sapa family, and he is naturally looking for a financial advisor who specializes in serving high-net-worth investors, that is, a private financial planner.
"That's right, it's not good to sit back and eat after all." Leon asked, "Do you have any people who know the relevant aspects?" ”
“..... Yes, boss. Jimmy whispered, "I have a good friend who happens to be an experienced, well-connected private financial advisor, but his resume is a bit problematic..."
Li Ang raised his eyebrows, "For example." ”
"He got some of his clients in trouble with the law, and seven or eight of them either lost their fortunes, or simply went bankrupt or jumped off the rooftop, and the company he belonged to tarnished their reputation, and he himself was thrown into prison for several years.
After he was released, the original customers had already turned to other in-service financial planners, and all wealth management institutions closed their doors to him, and even chased and blocked him. ”
Leon concluded: "That is to say, he is desperate everywhere, as long as there is a life-saving straw, he will hold on to it?" ”
Jimmy smiled bitterly, thinking of himself who had been poor and destitute some time ago, and whispered, ".... You can say the same. ”
"Sounds like a good fit for my needs, do you think he's reliable?"
Jimmy hesitated for a moment before he said tactfully: "All I can say is that this Robert Cullen is the most adventurous, unrestrained, and eclectic financial planner I have ever met, but he knows how to make money and survive. ”
This sentence can also be understood as the old rivers and lakes that oil and salt do not enter, hob meat.
"Very well, I'd love to hire this Mr. Cullen, can you get in touch and come out for dinner when?"
Jimmy smiled: "Actually, Robert is staying in my house for the time being, and he can go out at any time - but I'm afraid I'll have to buy him a makeshift suit first, this poor wretch's wife ran away with another man, and when the divorce was divided, his wife took away half of his life savings by virtue of her status as a woman, plus a house, two cars, and finally Robert had nothing left except visitation rights for his seven-year-old daughter and a loan for the house." ”
Li Ang has referred to many American legal trial cases on the Internet, and naturally knows that if a middle-aged man in the United States finds out that his wife is cheating, or even caught raping in bed, he will still have a disadvantage when he fights a divorce lawsuit.
Because women give up their right to work in order to take care of the family, the wife is the weaker, and the husband, who is a high-income earner, is very tendentious to ignore the rights of the husband and he will be deprived of the vast majority of the family property,
If you are unlucky and even need to bear the wife's alimony and child support, if the wife knows some laws, is a little shrewd, and does not live with the cheating partner, and the two do not constitute a cohabitation relationship in the legal sense, then the house that the husband has earned will be divided into the wife, and the husband himself will have to bear a high mortgage, and after the mortgage is repaid, the wife's cheating object will live in the house openly and become the head of the family.
For middle-class men in Europe and the United States, there is nothing more miserable and sad in the world than this, their own houses let the little white face live, their wives sleep with the little white face, and their sons and daughters still have to call the little white face their father, and what is even more terrible is that there are still a large number of feminists who applaud this kind of human tragedy, saying that this is the perfect protection of women's rights and interests in the new century.
Leon was even more satisfied with Jimmy's explanation, what he needed was this kind of money laundering expert who was at the end of his rope and had a bleak life, so he immediately agreed with Jimmy on a dinner time and waited to meet with his reserve private financial advisor.